Nokia Shows Its Greener Side
Here's an idea - how about the charger actually stops drawing power?
This whole thing sounds fishy.
To integrate functions of power regulation into something like that would infinitely increase the complexity of the charger. It would actually be much easier to design a function like that into the device that's being charged, and in fact, that's been done with most consumer electronics. But even a function like that wouldn't be able to physically stop the connection from the grid to the de...
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Car chargers are different though - it's not that they sense when the car isn't on, but when the ignition of the car isn't on, or the engine isn't running, there's no power being supplied to the outlet.
No one, including myself, is going to unplug the wall charger to save such a small amount of little electricity. Most of the people I work with, sadly, don't even turn off their work computers when they go home at night because they're to lazy to wait for it to turn on in the morning. (Something I cannot understand.) And listen to how much people complain about having to plug in their phone *every night*. Do you think they're going to mess with plugging and unplugging the charger every night, to?
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